Re: Is PROT_SOCK still relevant?

From: One Thousand Gnomes
Date: Mon Dec 14 2015 - 10:25:22 EST


> So it's been quite some time since this topic was covered in any
> capacity, and it's worth asking now: does it make sense to keep this
> ancient security bit around? Does it make a modicum of improvement to

Yes.

> Is there disagreement on my views or points?

Yes 8)

You don't really want someone racing you to set up a fake ssh service on
your system to steal all the passwords do you ?

Alan
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